Teradata reviews

A very high number of incompetent managers being allowed to make terrible decisions. Too much empire building going on. HR completely out of touch with what's going on in the employee base. In general, the company could care less about the employees. They just talk a good game. So many new players it is hard to tell where the problem begins.

- The Board of Directors are driving the company into the ground due to lack of vision as evident by an unqualified VP becoming a CEO and then fired due to poor execution in under a year. - The entire Executive Leadership Team and the Board lack the vision and the execution needed. - Product Management is incompetent causing missed deadlines, project failures, and low-quality software shipped to customers. - Engineering teams are not given opportunities to make high-level technical decisions. - Architecture team doesn't have any power to affect change. - Project failures and missed deadlines are often blamed on Engineering rather than on leadership's mismanagement. - Engineering & InfoSec cultures are largely stuck in the 90s. Most things require tickets. Cloud environments are too restricted. Barrier to innovation is extremely high. - Most long-time engineers (ones who have been with the company for 20+ years) refuse to accept/adapt to the evolving industry and double-down on decisions made 10-20 years ago that have introduced massive tech debt and inability to compete against modern solutions. - Work/Life balance is almost non-existent due continuous tight deadlines, pressures, and requirement for engineering to be on-call to support the Global Support Organization. - The organization structure is odd, to say the least. The Global Support Organization (GSO) is a completely different entity than R&D Engineering with conflicting priorities & financial incentives. GSO benefits from complex software deployments & hardware installations where they make their money, which means any attempts by Engineering to simplify/improve the process is often met with resistance. - Revenue has been declining Year-over-Year. No new customers have signed on or have been onboarded in over a year. Existing customers are actively moving to competitors' more modern solutions or leveraging their cloud provider's offerings. CEO & CFO have re-used excuses like "strong dollar", "exchange rate fluctuations", and "timing" as excuses for poor quarterly performances. - Morale is low. - Frequent lay-offs with the next one being set for late 2019/early 2020, rumored to be approx. 15% of San Diego workforce, 18% of Santa Clara, and the entire El Segundo site.